​Q: ​Please kindly explain what is the meaning of saving the Earth in terms of the universe at large. In addition, if the Earth is not saved, what effect would it have on the universe?

SM: Well, that’s a big picture, but if we don’t have this planet, the universe will offer another planet.

It depends on the merit of the people who will inhabit that or this planet. It has not so much effect in the universe as a whole, except that if the consciousness of people are elevated in a more morally suitable level, and the people are more enlightened, more compassionate, more loving, more kind, then it is good for the planet’s atmosphere as a whole, and it’s good that we live in peace and harmony, instead of living in suffering.

The planet here will become another Heaven on Earth, heavenly, fit for people to live. Otherwise, if the planet is destroyed, there will be other planets will be born or already exists that the souls can go and immigrate there.

But the thing is, you know very well, being a Buddhist nun, that the Buddha said to be a human, to have a human body is so precious, so rare a chance, that we should treasure it because we don’t know if we get another human body again soon. Because in a human body, we could practice spiritually quicker and more auspicious than in other kind of body.

The Buddha had said that to have a human body is so rare that it’s like, imagine a blind turtle living on the very deep bottom of the big ocean. And he only goes up to the surface of the water, once every thousand years he comes up to the surface.

And then, at that moment, there should be a wood plank with a hole in it. And that the turtle just comes up to the surface and happens to go through that hole in that wood plank.

That is how rare it is to have a human incarnation.

So I would like all of you to know that we have to save their lives because of that preciousness, so that they will have a chance to redeem themselves, to remember their greatness, to remember the Buddhahood, the Buddha nature within themselves, to have a chance to awaken their consciousness, to be enlightened.

Because the longer they live, the more chance they have to encounter the true teaching of an enlightened Master.